There were once Giants on the Earth .
Documentation of these Giant kin of homo-sapiens is bountiful.
The Old testament as well as the Apocrypha attests to their
existence in a myriad of passages . For instance Numbers
13:33 "We saw the
Nephilim
there . We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to
them."

The subject of the Nephilim is one of
the great controversies of the Bible. Some believe that the Nephilim were
apparently a race of impressive physical stature compared to the smaller
Hebrews, many Biblical passages support this belief.

Genesis 6:4
King James Version

There were giants in the earth in those days;
and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same
became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6:4 New International Version

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also
afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men
and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men
of renown.

Numbers 13:33 King James
Version

And there we sawthe giants, the sons of Anak,
which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Numbers 13:33
New International Version

We
saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come
from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own
eyes, and we looked the same to them."

Only the King James version of the Bible translates Nephilim as
"Giants" .

King
James Bible errantly translates gigantes from the Greek as
"Giants" . Gigantes does not translate to Giants, it means "Born
of the Earth" or "Born of Gaia"

The
Greek Gigantes were a primitive tribe born of Gaia (the
Earth), some say when she was impregnated by the blood of the
castrated Ouranos (Heaven). At the instigation of Gaia they made
war on the gods but were destroyed in the ensuing battle .

The Gigantes were depicted alternatively as hostile warriors or
extreme primitives wearing animal skins and armed with torches
and rocks. They were also depicted as Giants, but
the word gigantes itself does not translate to Giants . And once
again is relative to a fallen Angels saga.

Although there are variant scholarly interpretations of the word
Nephilim , the general consensus is that
"Nephilim" is a Hebrew word whose basic meaning is "those who have
fallen." . Alternate Translations dependant upon the context in which it
is used "those who fall upon," in the sense of invaders or hostile and
violent men, such as in Eziekel 32:20. " They will fall among those
killed by the sword. .... " In the context of which it is
utilized in Genesis, it is in reference to "fallen", as in
"Fallen Angels" .

The Hebrew word nephel is probably the root
word from which Nephilim is derived- nephel means: "untimely birth,
abortion, miscarriage". Nephilim would therefore be "Unnaturally
begotten men" or bastards from "abortion" or "miscarriage" It does not necessarily convert to gigantic in
stature/height. So in essence the etymology of the word
Nephilim tends to reflect the saga it depicts. That of fallen
Angels impregnating Human females who bore "Unnaturally begotten
men" that would become known as the Nephilim.

The Nephilim ,Rephaites or Rephaim
Giants, Anakites, Emites, all are Biblical names for a Human racial
group
that may have once walked the Earth. Some legends state that they were Giants

The Emim / Rephaim were another tribe of
Nephilim (Deuteronomy 2:11). They are described as a powerful people
and warrior tribe of giants who were defeated around the time of
Abraham. They inhabited a successful kingdom east of the Jordan.
As per Hebrew scholar Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040-1105) the word
Emim translates to "Dreaded Ones" Rephaites or Rephaim Some
scholars believe the Rephaim built the megalithic monuments, the
dolmens, and the
menhirs of Syria and eastern Palestine. Fields of dolmens still
may be seen in many parts of northern Jordan. The Emim / Rephaim
were conquered and dispossessed by the Canaanite tribes, are
classed under this general title. The Moabites referred to the
rephaim as Emim.

Genesis 14:5 In the fourteenth year,
Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated
the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the
Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim

Deuteronomy 2:10 The Emites used to live
there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.
2:11 Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites, but
the Moabites called them Emites.

Gebers / Gibborim
["mighty Ones"], are figures in
Judeo-Christian mythology. They are sometimes regarded as powerful
angels , on Earth they are sometimes seen as giants.

Anakites - Sons of Anak. A tribe of giants
inhabiting Hebron and its vicinity at the time of the Israelite
invasaion of Canaan. According to the Book of Joshua, Joshua
and Caleb virtually annihilated this tribe in a genocidal conquest
of their lands.

Anax is an ancient Greek word
for "king". A very common word in ancient poet Homer's
vocabulary is for King, - in Greek "anax" better
translated as high king. Greek mythology tells of
a Giant Anax ('high king'), who ruled Anactoria [Miletus] in
Asia Minor [Turkey]. According to
Appollodorus
, the disinterred skeleton of Asterius ,
Anax's son and successor, measured ten cubits.
During the reign of Asterius , Anactoria was conquered by the
Cretan -Miletus, who changed the name Anactoria into Miletus.
The Anakim may have been Anactorian refugees or colonists

The origination of the Nephilim in Hebrew tradition
begins with a story of the fallen angels in theThe Book of Enoch
. Shemhazai, an angel of high rank, led a sect of angels in a
descent to earth to instruct humans in righteousness. The mission
lasted for a few centuries, but soon the soldiers/missionaries/angels
could no longer tolerate their celibacy and found themselves lusting
after human females. After satiating their romantic ambitions, the
fallen angels instructed the women in magic and conjuring, mated with
them, and produced offspring. These offspring would later be referred to
as the Nephilim.

Genesis says of Enoch , only that he "walked with God," and afterward
"he was not, because God had taken him" (Gen. 5:24). This passage made
Enoch an exalted figure of considerable fascination.

Numbers 13:33 when taken in its proper context actually
states that the "grasshopper" analogy was a blatant
fabrication.

Numbers 13:30-33 New International Version
30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "We
should go up and take possession of the land, for we can
certainly do it." 31 But the men who had gone up with him
said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than
we are." 32 And they spread among the Israelites
a bad report about the land
they had explored. They said, "The land we explored
devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are
of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants
of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers
in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."

There was a Book of Giants in antiquity, fragments of which are
partially preserved in Aramaic at Qumran and in later Manichean
versions. The Book of Giants builds upon Genesis 6:4 " There were giants in
the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of
God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them,
the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. "
It was widely read in ancient
Rome and Greece but only fragments of it, some un-translated exist
today.

The following are some
relevant excerpts, even with the large volume of missing sections we can
still ascertain the basic relevance

[ ?everything that the] earth
produced [?] [ ?] the great fish [?] [ ? ] the sky with all that
grew [?] [ ? fruit of] the earth and all kinds of grain and all
the trees
[?] 1... male and female, and among humans [?]

It is interesting to note that
one the Giants referred to in this work is Gilgamesh, for any who are familiar with the Gilgamesh Epic.(i.e., 4Q531, 6Q8 Frag. 2 and 4Q530 Col.
2), "the name of one of the giants is Gilgamesh, the Babylonian hero and
subject of a great epic written in the third millennium B.C.E." -The Dead Sea Scrolls : A New Translation
(1996) p. 247

The
The Book of Enoch
elaborates on the story found fragmentarily in the Book of Giants ..
The origination of the Nephilim begins with a story of the fallen
angels. Originating in the Book of Enoch {Apocrypha}. Shemhazai,
an angel of high rank, led a sect of angels in a descent to earth to
instruct humans in righteousness. The mission lasted for a few centuries, but soon the
soldiers/missionaries/angels became corrupted in their lusting after human females. After lusting, the fallen angels
instructed the women in magic and conjuring, mated with them, and
produced offspring, who would later be referred to as the Nephilim.

The Ras Shamra Tablets, found by archaeologists excavating at Ras Shamra
on the coast of Syria in 1929 refer to a mysterious people called the "rpum."
These tablets have been labeled the Rephaim Texts because of the close
analogy with the Hebrew term "rpm" or Rephaim. The tablets contain an invitation to attend a banquet being given at
an unspecified place to honor the Chief/Lord God "El" . The Rephaim
Tablet describes how
they prepare their horses and chariots, and arrive the next day at the
site of the feast. In these
tablets, the "rpum" are referred to as the "Rephaim of Baal," but they
themselves are also considered to be deities since they are occasionally
called "ilnym" or gods. Apparently these were not ordinary
men. -- They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today

Egyptian Execration Textsbelieved to have been composed
between 1900 and 1700 B.C., substantiates the biblical accounts of
giants called the Anakim. Some of these texts, put hexes on some Anakim
leaders from Canaan.

The Execration texts listed places, groups of people or individuals
that were considered hostile, dangerous, or evil. They were written on
statues of prisoners or on jars, that were broken and then buried, as
part of the ritual destruction of the enemies listed in the texts.

One of the Execration Texts from the 12th Dynasty (circa 1900 B.C.),
presently on display at the Berlin Museum, contains "an incantation
directed towards certain enemy cities and territories and which name
specific rulers of an area called 'Iy-'aneq'," which most scholars read
as Anak. The texts also frequently refer to Ashdod as a "city of the
giants."

Flavius Josephus, the noted Roman/Jewish historian of the first century A.D.,
described the giants "....For which reason
they removed their camp to Hebron; and when they had taken it, they slew
all the inhabitants. There were till then left the race of giants, who
had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other
men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the
hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike
to any credible relations of other men.
." Antiquities of the Jews 5.125 (5.2.3)
Now, this much cited
passage from Josephus by itself is nothing incredible in that he is only
recounting Jewish Legend, which we already have available to us from
Biblical sources. He adds however that , the bones of the giants were
still on display in his time. [Some scholars have argued that
the bones displayed by ancient Greeks and Romans were nothing more than
dinosaur bones.]

Unlike the
Giants of the Ancient Americas, no
physical/anthropological/archeological proof of the Middle Eastern /
Mediterranean Giants has been unearthed in Modern times. Most
references to these Giants are second hand, many that are allegedly not
second hand have been committed to writing years , if not generations
later and are based upon legendary accounts. Legendary accounts,
are, without exception exaggerations, and misinterpretations. The
fact remains however that many ancient trans-cultural middle Eastern texts , both
Biblical and otherwise speak of these people who were men, but not
ordinary men. They were "the heroes of old, men of renown" as per
Genesis 6:4.

Every time a tale is retold it changes just a bit. Legends have a strong tendency to distort relevant facts, but in most
cases the underlying foundation of the story has some basis in reality. The
human tendency is to remember and retell things that make a strong
impression and to forget things that don't impress us much at all. There
is also a tendency to exaggerate , glorify , idealize or vilify. As well
as a natural tendency to simplify or edit. After generations of stories
being retold of these huge men with extraordinary strength, the men
eventually become giants

Although no verifiable physical proof of these Legendary Giants is
known, there is extensive proof of a racial grouping of men, who were
not ordinary men, men who could very well be the "heroes of old, men of
renown" of which Genesis speaks. [Continued
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